I'm a yoga teacher 14 year meditator but this has given me the proper focus to count my calories and control my eating for the first time on my life. There is a saying that you are what you eat. Perhaps from the yoga and Ayurvedic perspective it is more like we eat what we are i.e. Ayurveda/ yoga considers that disease and ill health are caused by imbalances and taking on more energy( food whether mental , physical or energetic). If we take on more stuff that is like our constitutional elements then this will result in too much of this element hence imbalance. The great yoga master Krishnamacharya explained that the kriya yoga is the first task and that means lifestyle adaptations such as mainly proper diet. Thank you so much for helping me in this kriya yoga task. The great thing is you can stool eat most of what you like but less of and balanced with other healthy stuff